Example sentences of "[coord] they can not be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there are no witnesses or they can not be traced , an admission by the defendant either verbally to the officer dealing with the case ( who would record the admission in his pocket book or accident booklet ) or in writing if he chooses to make a ‘ voluntary ’ statement in accordance with the Codes of Practice . |
| 2 | N.B. It should be noted that in Austria twin beds often consist of two separate mattresses attached to a single frame or headboard and they can not be separated . |
| 3 | Acts like eating , sexual intercourse , and fighting are embedded in a socially shared set of associated symbols , and they can not be isolated from this semantic setting . |
| 4 | The advantages of a DIP system are that images — unlike paper documents — do not have to be physically moved around the office , they occupy much less storage space , and they can not be lost , misfiled or damaged in the way that paper can . |
| 5 | But they lack the three essentials : they do not evolve , they do not process energy , and they can not be called organisms . |
| 6 | But I have some sympathy for the institutions ' view that their duty is to their policyholders and they can not be expected to double up as company regulators . |
| 7 | There are about 600 of them , and they can not be traded for commercial purposes . |
| 8 | He argues that class conflicts and economic crises are built into the way the economic system works , and they can not be avoided . |
| 9 | Putting this point on a more theoretical level , the musical field and the class structure at any given moment , though clearly not unconnected , comprise different ‘ maps ’ of social/cultural space , and they can not be reduced one to the other ( see Williams 1981 ) . |
| 10 | These features are just as important to efficient performance as are data about plant functions but they can not be incorporated in a man-machine allocation process . |
| 11 | But they can not be altered unless they are first apprehended . |
| 12 | Hubble and Just Do It are both fantastic in their own way , but they can not be compared . |
| 13 | The ‘ stepped pyramids ’ may be characteristic of the Cornish landscape , but they can not be said to sit naturally in it . |
| 14 | The different aspects of the Christian faith can be distinguished for the sake of clarity but they can not be separated in the life of the Christian community as if any one of them could exist alone or have priority over the others |
| 15 | They may define positions that have often been repeated , but they can not be given a timeless quality . |
| 16 | Later of course as up this early infantile attitude where you idolize your parents becomes replaced by a more rational and so on , but Freud 's finding was that this early attitude in childhood does n't get er abolished , it just gets repressed , it 's forced out of conscious because you true and of course things that are not true have to be removed consciousness , but they can not be erased , so they 're forced into the unconscious and they live in the unconscious and they feed myths like the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and all of us in our er erm in our er conscious see the hero as a , as a parental figure that reflects the family romance , the idea that once we were , we were a special child with very special parents . |
| 17 | Fire resistant paints may be clear like a varnish , or coloured like a paint , but they can not be overpainted . |
| 18 | The ‘ headlands ’ , where the horses or tractors turn at either end of the ridges , constitute too large a proportion of a smallholder 's roots field to be allowed to lie fallow , but they can not be cultivated and sown until the inter-row hoeing is completed . |
| 19 | Passes may be issued which will allow access by car , coach or ambulance tot he esplanade , but they CAN NOT BE ISSUED for performances on Saturdays under any circumstances . |
| 20 | ‘ We do not want to bypass the elected representatives , but they can not be allowed to hold up progress . |
| 21 | Certainly the use of light pens can ease the editing and manipulation of an image once it 's on the screen but they can not be used to copy a picture from a sheet of paper . |
| 22 | While there are a number of on-screen drawing programs which allow the creation and manipulation of an image but they can not be used to copy a picture from a sheet of paper . |
| 23 | The blue tits in any area may vary , but they can not be divided into two or more discrete groups ( except by sex , or by age ) , and the distinction between blue tits and great tits in any area is absolute ; intermediates do not exist because the two species do not interbreed . |
| 24 | It is fair to say that cells in this area are encoding the properties of faces but they can not be encoding their identities . |
| 25 | The Epistles of St Paul and the Apocalyptic Book of Revelation contain many high and mystical expressions of belief about Christ but they can not be described as ‘ records ’ of the kind which would compel rational belief . |
| 26 | The varied articles presented introduce the reader to some of the most recent strands of linguistics and literary studies but they can not be thought to constitute a unified discipline . |
| 27 | Certain tender varieties of narcissi , like ‘ Paper White ’ and ‘ Grand Soleil d'Or ’ , are naturally early flowering and do not need a natural or artificial cool period in order to flower quickly and healthily indoors , but they can not be planted outside afterwards . |
| 28 | They can be deciphered semantically as symbols without difficulty , but they can not be interpreted pragmatically as indices ( for further discussion see Widdowson 1983 , 1984a : Paper 9 ) . |